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The large and small!
Things that I could only imagine, or maybe not, were there in front of my eyes!
Talking about large …
Being the country with more than 9 times zones all territories considered
Niagara which has close to about 561000 litres of water flowing down per second
Being able to drive the distance between New Delhi and Kanya Kumari over a long weekend
and the other extreme… small…
What would you call a 40 seater bus which makes awfully loud sound and can fly? no points for guessing that it’s called an aeroplane and this size is very popular for short distances in the states… my flight from Syracuse was a CRJ200 Bombardier Regional Jet with a seating capacity of 50 (2 pilots, 1 crew member, 42 passenger seats – 9 rows of 4 seats each, and 1 of 6 , I am not sure where are the other seats) and if this was small, there was another flight which had only 3 seats in a row, more rows though, and just enough headroom for me to stand properly… now the good part about these flights is that they have a good amount of legroom, and if you are not taller than 6ft you should be able to stretch your legs all the way… the bad part is that you might have to move around if the plane is empty to distribute the weight for a take off!!! It’s a plane, I understand a bit of the weight balance and aerodynamics but still found it amusing when I was asked to move the first time 😀
I think these planes make more sense to fly low traffic routes in India instead of the large Boeings or Airbuses. I wonder why they use large aircrafts all the time.
Taking about sizes, here is something for you to read and think about…
“On a diagram of the solar system to scale, with Earth reduced to about the diameter of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet away and Pluto would be a mile and a half distant (and about the size of a bacterium, so you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway). One the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. Even if you shrank down everything so that Jupiter was as small as the period at the end of this sentence, and Pluto was no bigger than a molecule, Pluto would still be over thirty-five feet away. (Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything)“
And speaking of distances and history… some distances do get covered in due course of time and some milestones do become history… one of such is about to happen shortly while I am writing this!
Enjoy your no frills experience !!!
I call that rude, maybe some people would call it a to the point, matter of fact experience when it comes to flying domestic in this country!!!
Found it very strange that you have to buy a headset in case you want to listen to music ( actually I did not realise that I could use my own headset too) and that you have to buy food on the flight… even though I am paying some $270 bucks one way on that 3.5 hours flight… on second thoughts I should not be complaining as I had seen in the news a few days back that because of the high oil prices most of the flights are running in losses… they are not making a single dollar earning, on the contrary have a loss of anything between $500 – $1000 per flight… But I am a customer; I should get what I am paying for!!! In double minds about this complaint right now!!!
Also it might be just me who is feeling this, but I usually get a second look because I am an Asian… there are not many that I have seen in places I have been to in the last two weeks of my stay in the US… honestly, I am still to start liking this country except for the fact that my camera equipment is cheaper here…
So this weekend I am in Phoenix… the oven city ( that’s what I am calling it) the temperature is around 105 degs Fahrenheit which is only 40deg Celsius, but because its dry, it feels as if my body is sitting in a Tandoor… already having a bad headache today and I have another two days left here, and all this when I have survived the 45degs in Delhi… i am going to avoid this sudden change of temperature from my room to outside and then back into office tomorrow.. How!! Not yet sure of yet!!!
Ok enough of cribs… here are few good moments from my flight!!! I am going to try and enjoy the rest of my weekend, hope you do too!!!